St John Medical College Provided

The college has modern academic facilities including well lit, spacious airconditioned class rooms, modern seating system and state of the art audiovisual aids. To enhance the learning process, classrooms have projection software to visualize and understand the complex processes in medicine. College auditoriums  equipped with modern audiovisual aids to conduct seminars , conferences , Laboratories are well equipped for teaching practical aspects of subjects. Departments have museums pertaining to respective subjects which are curated and catalogued so that students can utilize them for self-directed learning. The college has its own teaching hospital with adequate infrastructure, clinical material and staff. Students are also exposed to primary and secondary healthcare through outreach facilities. The examination hall is very spacious, adequately equipped and secured for conducting University examinations. It has inbuilt secretarial services.

• Library

The Central library was initially housed on the first floor of St. John’s Medical College building with a huge area provided for stocking books, back volumes of periodicals and current journals. During the early period (1974) a branch the Library was housed at St. Martha’s Hospital, catering to the needs of the staff of St. John’s Medical College, Registrars, Students, and Interns. The library was taken by staff in-charge, a clerk and helper attached to St. John’s Medical College. The Library was kept open for a few hours and the borrowing facility was provided only to the members of SJMC. But the reference services were continued to the Staff of St. Martha’s Hospital, as well large number of students from various Medical Institutions and Medical Practitioners from in and around Bangalore. This library was shifted to St. John’s Medical College in the year 1981, when all the clinical departments were shifted to St. John’s Medical College Hospital leaving behind 75% of books, Journals, and furniture at St. Martha’s.

The new building consists of 2 floors; reference books are stocked on the ground floor, while the lending section, current periodicals and back volumes of five years are stocked on the first floor. Both the floors have adequate reading area. Space has also been provided for Audio-visual Aids, Microfilms and Seminar room. The library is kept open 14 hours during weekdays, 12 hours on Saturdays and 4 hours on Sundays and Hospital working days and College Holidays.

On 8th March 2016, the Golden Jubilee block was inaugurated. In the first-floor personal book reading section has been provided for our UG and PG students. The section is kept open till 11 pm and during the examination time it kept open 24 hours. The back volumes of bound journals and Serial publications are stocked in Golden Jubilee Block Lecture theatre – 1 basement

• Hostel

The institute provides hostel facitlites to all its students. The hostels are located on campus and have easy access to the college facilities. Each hostel is supervised by a resident warden who is a teaching faculty of the institute or part of the administrative committee. The warden is available on campus at all times and can be approached by the students at any time and forms the first point of contact for redressal of students’ grievances. The admission to the hostel is streamlined through an online application process (on admission) and approved immediately through the associate director’s offices. Hostelites have access to a hostel manger for their room maintainences needs.

• Simulation Lab

The idea of a simulation centre for the institution was envisioned during the planning of the institutional golden jubilee celebrations during 2013. Initial plans were put in place by a committee headed by Dr Sanjiv Lewin and Dr Swarna Rekha in 2013 to cater to the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate students. The implementation gained momentum under the leadership of the Director Rev Fr Dr Paul Parathazham and Associate Director for College, Rev Fr Duming Dias. In 2017, Dr John Stephen was appointed as the head of a team to coordinate and facilitate the setting up of the Clinical Skills Lab and Simulation Centre. Dr. Jui and Dr. Nachiket were appointed as coordinators of the Simulation Centre. Their dreams came to fruition on 7th February 2018 when the simulation centre was formally inaugurated.

Skills training was successfully incorporated into the MBBS curriculum from August 2018 onward. The centre also started conducting workshops for both in-house participants and those from other institutions. In November 2019, St. John’s partnered with Laerdal to host an international conference on simulation. In 2019, 51 training sessions were conducted for undergraduate students and 37 sessions for interns, postgraduate students and faculty.

• Transportation

For the convenience of students and faculty staying off-campus,  Medical college and Research hospital has a fleet of 10 buses that ferry them to and fro. The buses traverse the city and suburbs and routes are planned to provide maximum convenience to students and staff. Additionally, the college is also well connected to the  bus services and a major metro station that is located few kms away from the campus is under commission.

• Cafeteria

A cafeteria with modern facilities is available within the campus and is open for staff and students. it is open till late hours and serves healthy and hygienic food at affordable prices.

• Auditorium

There is a Auditorium in the campus equipped with the slide and multimedia projectors.

• Sports

Students don’t just excel in the classrooms but in the sports field too. The outstanding facilities for indoor and outdoor games include tennis, badminton, basketball and volleyball courts and grounds for field events. A distinguished Sports director who has made his mark nationally, and an unwavering focus on healthy competition and sportsmanship have seen our teams winning laurels time and again

Other Facilities

• Medical
• Computer labs
• Laboratory
• Hospital
• OPD
• Centre for Community Medicine
• Blood Bank